50-409: E-Type , Type E , or other variations may refer to: E-type asteroid , an asteroid thought to have an enstatite achondrite surface Victorian Railways E type carriage , a wooden express train passenger carriage E-Type (musician) , a Swedish musician Jaguar E-Type , a British sports car E-Type (video game) , a 1989 driving video game named for
100-550: A State Car was built in 1912, having a similar design to that of the Parlor cars. The DVE, EEB, and EES classes were 60.16 feet (18.34 m) long, the remainder 71 feet (21.64 m). All had wooden bodies, clerestory roofs and six-wheel bogies. On his website, Peter J. Vincent notes that he suspects the 'E' classification referred to 'Express'. All cars were re-coded in 1910, without being renumbered: AVE to AE, ABVE to ABE, BVE to BE, DVE to CE, EEB to D, EES to DS, and ESBV to BDSE. All
150-463: A buffet car in 1937 and named Taggerty two years later. In this form a kitchen and long counter facing eighteen seats filled most of the carriage, with three first-class compartments seating the same number of passengers in the rest of the carriage. Taggerty ran in VR long-distance services, most often on the 12 noon Melbourne to Bendigo, returning on the 5:04 pm. It originally retained the dark red scheme of
200-439: A reversal of the former arrangement. Notably, all four compartments were now gentleman-exclusive. The external sliding doors near the middle of the car were not moved, but an additional pair of sliding doors were added at the non-passenger end of the carriages. The capacity of these cars was recorded as 36, but that didn't appear to count the two seats opposite the male lavatory. It is thought that these changes were made to allow for
250-782: A total of 72 along with a lavatory/wash basin arrangement at either end of each carriage. Like the AVE cars, the first four cars had two compartments at the Gentlemen's end were reserved for Smoking travellers, while another two compartments adjacent to the Ladies lavatory were reserved for ladies only; this was later reduced to one Ladies compartment, with the Non-Smoking compartment count increased from five to six. BVE cars numbered 5 and higher began their lives with two Smoking, 6 Non-Smoking, and 1 Ladies compartment each. 39 cars of this class were built initially;
300-455: A year in traffic, the 1910 re-coding saw the ESBV vans re-lettered to BDSE. In 1913-14, the last three BDSE cars were modified internally; the ladies compartment and lavatory were removed, replaced with an expanded mail sorting area a little under 40 feet (12 m) long, but with only two seats, 21 mail bag frames, and 12 pigeon holes. In addition, three compartments were smoking and one non-smoking,
350-497: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Victorian Railways E type carriage The E type carriages were wooden express passenger carriage used on the railways of Victoria , Australia . Originally introduced by Victorian Railways Chairman of Commissioners Thomas James Tait for the interstate service between Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide, these Canadian-inspired carriages remained in regular service for 85 years over
400-508: Is preserved in Bright at a museum at the former railway station, one of only two South Australian Railways-built E cars to survive. The bodies of 7 & 16CE were noted at Drouin, 8CE at Hallam, 10 & 21CE at Officer, 20CE at Hanging Rock, 23CE at Beaconsfield, 24CE at Warrnambool, 33CE at Gembrook, and 36CE at Yea. 36 2nd class passengers (8 to 10 ESBV/BDSE post modification) A batch of ten ESBV carriages were built in 1909-1910, generally to
450-622: The Victorian Goldfields Railway but were sold to Seymour Railway Heritage Centre and moved by rail to Seymour for restoration in late 2010. 19BE, 34BE, & 36BE were allocated to the South Gippsland Railway, and 42BE (constructed at Islington Railway Workshops , South Australia) is preserved at the National Railway Museum at Port Adelaide . 45BE (ex BDSE) has been named Hastings and is currently at Moorooduc on
500-481: The loading gauge allowed. Much of their external appearance was based on typical Canadian carriage design, with a clerestory roof curved at the ends, doors only at the ends of the car, and six-wheel bogies, although their interior design retained the compartment & corridor layout typical of English railway practice. The cars were built over a steel truss underframe , with wooden bodies constructed in cedar , six-wheeled bogies with eight brake blocks each (two to
550-673: The Adelaide run and another two for the Albury run, but shortly after those services began the Newport pair were swapped for 5 & 6DVE, so that the Joint Stock (fish-fitted) series was 1 to 4, furthermore they were to be used exclusively on Adelaide services. Construction continued at Newport in much the same fashion until 1910, when the 17th van was classed CE, the previous 16 DVE vans being re-classed to same. The CE fleet continued to expand until 1911, with
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#1732852476439600-490: The BDSE cars were later converted to BE and BCE cars. In addition to the original 144 carriages, a further 31 were built from 1919 onwards, however, three of these were replacements so the total in service never exceeded 172 at any one time. These carriages were built from 1906 with eight compartments, each seating 6 first-class passengers for a total of 48 along with a lavatory/wash basin arrangement at either end of each carriage. In
650-546: The BE group, two suffixes were added to the class in 1982. Using the standard BE capacity of 72 passengers, cars with a greater capacity (76 passengers) were coded BE and cars with less capacity (64 passengers) were coded BE . Cars listed as BE were 44 to 47, while 50, 53, 55 to 61BE were re-classed to BE , same numbers, during 1982; it is likely that cars 52 & 54 were also re-lettered but records have not been found to confirm this. All these cars were withdrawn during 1983/1984 thanks to
700-728: The Ghan Preservation Society in Alice Springs. 9AE was also leased to the SAR for a period in February 1954. In the early 1960s, some AE cars had their bogies switched with those formerly under the Spirit of Progress carriages, as those cars were converted to standard gauge. However, while the bogie frames were transferred, it is thought that the AE cars may have retained their spoked wheelsets (?). Around
750-619: The Mornington Tourist Railway, along with 57BE & 58BE both ex ABE. 47BE (ex BDSE) is privately owned and at Seymour. From 1906, construction of the DVE vans started. At 60 ft 2 in (18.34 m) long, the vans were used for small amounts of freight (in some cases built with meat, fish, and coffin areas), and incorporated guards cupolas at each end of the carriages Vans 1 & 2 were built at Newport, 3 to 6 at Islington. Originally this meant two fish-fitted vans were available for
800-488: The Newport Workshops compound. In 1955 the cars were finally finished, re-entering service as air-conditioned Restaurant cars: three compartments were retained but the rest of the car stripped out, being replaced with a buffet module with an eating area. The cars were named Kiewa and Moyne respectively. A John Buckland photo of Moyne in 1958 at Dimboola shows that it was fitted with ex-Spirit of Progress bogies. In 1959
850-509: The Victorian Railways' passenger fleet (though with a silver roof), but was later repainted into the blue and gold scheme. The vehicle was sold in 1983 and it now resides in a park in Donald. 21AE & 26AE were intended to follow Taggerty, but this work was held off during World War II. As work had already started the vehicles could not be pressed back into service, so they spent the war in
900-428: The Victorian Railways; the remainder (spread fairly randomly throughout the class) were constructed at least partially by contractors in the Newport area. Car 36AE was notable as this car was the prototype car for air conditioning carriages in VR service, the test for the "Spirit of Progress" cars. 36AE entered service 13 December 1935, after air conditioning modifications, which took seven months to complete. In 1961, it
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1000-555: The car was also fitted with external South Australian Railways drop-handle handbrake equipment on one of the corners, matching the style of van 1D. At some point, 42BE was fitted with steel sheeting over the timber sides in an attempt to preserve them. Cars 44 to 48BE were converted from BDSE mail sorting cars between 1922 and 1929 (see details below). Cars 49, 50, 51, & 52BE were former first class air-conditioned cars, re-classed when new steel carriages were introduced. 53BE to 61BE were converted from composite ABE cars during 1981, as
1050-541: The care of Steamrail Victoria . 12ABE was also under Steamrail's care, but everything above the frame was scrapped in 2008 after deteriorating markedly. In preservation, 7ABE was fitted with a small kiosk at the Second Class end of the carriage and is used to sell souvenirs on trips. 5ABE has also been fitted with a kiosk in preservation towards the center of the carriage. These carriages were built from 1906 with nine compartments, each seating 8 second-class passengers for
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#17328524764391100-573: The code may have indicated Grampians, a Victorian mountain range the cars would often run past, though by the mid 1970s 1BG was exclusively allocated to services on the Yarram line. Later it was used as a radio test vehicle; it is now stored, awaiting restoration. 2BG was destroyed in a Glenorchy level crossing smash, in 1971. 10 cars were built between 1906 and 1909 at or near Newport Workshops, classed ABVE. The cars seated 23 first and 31 second class passengers in eight compartments. One Smoking compartment
1150-428: The compartment, at the expense of one seat. The ladies lavatory was directly opposite a staff lavatory, which adjoined the staff-only mail sorting compartment, which was a little under 30 feet (9 m) long. The mail compartment contained a sorting desk with a pintsch-gas heated wax pot (for letter sealing), a cupboard, four seats and thirty-four pigeon holes on one side, with a framework for storage of sixty mail bags on
1200-701: The entire Victorian network. Carriages on Victorian long-distance express services at the start of the 20th century were, in comparison to the Pullman cars operated by the New South Wales Government Railways , relatively cramped and austere. Chairman of Commissioners Thomas Tait, previously the Transportation Manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway , introduced a carriage design that was 71 feet (21.64 m) long, and as wide as
1250-587: The first (36AE) being out-shopped in December 1935. The Victorian Railways claimed it was the first such car in the British Empire , but the Canadian Pacific and the New South Wales Government Railways already had air-conditioned carriages. Of the joint stock carriages, the first class and sleeping carriages were constructed at Newport Workshops by the Victorian Railways; the second class carriages and most of
1300-425: The first four carriages, two compartments at the Gentlemen's end were reserved for Smoking travellers, while another two compartments adjacent to the Ladies lavatory were reserved for ladies only; this was later reduced to one Ladies compartment, with the Non-Smoking compartment count increased from four to five. 26 cars were built and numbered 1AV to 26AV . In the 1910 re-coding the class was re-lettered to AE, with
1350-565: The introduction of the N sets . One BE underframe was retained by the South Australian Railways for workshops use; the bogies and frame, including floor, were used to transfer heavy beams around the workshops until the late 1980s. 1BE, 14BE, 26BE, & 33BE are currently preserved at Seymour Railway Heritage Centre, 4BE, 17BE, 25BE, & 38BE along with 46BE (ex BDSE) are currently preserved with Steamrail Victoria while 2BE, 3BE, 29BE, & 30BE are stored; 15BE & 20BE were with
1400-412: The last vehicle being 25 CE. The first 25 DVE/CE vans were split into three subtypes. Vans 1 to 4 had two outer guards' compartments 7 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in (2.22 m) long, two outer baggage compartments of 15 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (4.78 m) long, with a central fish compartment of 13 feet (3.96 m). Vans 5 & 6 were similar, although the central compartment
1450-488: The late 1940s. The 1936 General Appendix specifies that CE type brake vans were absolutely banned from the Healesville line, but it does not specify why. In 1963 35CE was modified for standard gauge service. It was reclassed to 1VHE: (V) Victoria; (H) (NSW guards van code); (E) (E-car van), although in 1969 the van was restored to its former identity. Vans 35 CE & 36 CE spent some time with Vinelander stencils. 33CE
1500-429: The majority were numbered 1BV to 31BV , although construction continued with cars 32 to 39 being released after the 1910 re-coding, so they started life as BE cars with the remainder of the class re-coded to join them. In 1923 a further four cars, 40BE to 43BE, were built to supplement 5BE to 10BE in the joint-stock arrangement. The Joint Stock cars were built at the South Australian Railways' Islington Railway Workshops;
1550-535: The male toilets at each end, giving a total seating capacity of 58 passengers. In the 1910 re-coding the cars were re-lettered to ABE with original numbers retained; around this time a further 6 were built to the same design as numbers 11 to 16. Nine of the cars were re-coded to BES in about 1960 (indicating slightly lesser capacity than a normal BE car), with a further four of the class scrapped between 1970 and 1982. 5ABE & 16ABE are preserved at Seymour Railway Heritage Centre while 3ABE & 7ABE are currently under
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1600-458: The original numbers retained. Construction continued with a further twelve cars released to traffic until 1910 (Nos. 27 to 38), and a final four cars added in 1923 (Nos. 39 to 42). Cars 5 to 10, & 39 to 42 were in Joint Stock service (shared) between Adelaide and Melbourne, on trains such as the Overland. Although all construction was at Newport, only around 25 of the carriages were constructed by
1650-484: The other 33 carriages were built at Newport, although about two-thirds of those were constructed by local contractors rather than Railway workers. 9BE & 43BE were involved in the 1929 derailment at Callington, SA. 9BE was destroyed, but 43BE was rebuilt with a new underframe and bogies spaced at 51 ft 10 in (15.80 m) rather than the class standard of 53 ft 10 in (16.41 m). The new underframe had been fitted by 3 August 1931 at Islington, and
1700-409: The other. Besides the inter-carriage diaphragms, the mail sorting compartment was only accessible by a sliding door on each side of the carriage, much like those on DVE vans. 6 to 10ESBV were slightly different internally compared to 1 to 5ESBV — if looking from the mail sorting area towards the passenger area the corridor was on the right, rather than the left as in the first five cars. After less than
1750-676: The outer two reaching 15 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (4.86 m) across, while the centre one was 15 ft 9 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (4.81 m). The fleet was further expanded from 1923, with vans 26 to 32 built to the same design (numbers 26 & 27 were added to the Joint Stock fleet), as well as vans 33 to 37 built with an arched roof similar to the then-new W type carriage design, which were also fitted with four-wheel (two-axle), rather than six-wheel (three-axle) bogies. Between 1926 and 1928, vans 11 to 14 had one of their guards' compartments removed at one end to make way for two transversely mounted coffin chambers. The end door
1800-444: The outside of the outer wheels, two each per centre wheel), and clerestory roofs to give ventilation as well as daytime lighting. Night-time lighting was initially provided with Pintsch gas . Separate drop-toilets for males and females were provided in all passenger vehicles except the dining cars, along with staff toilets in the twelve mail vans. About three decades into their lives, 15 first-class carriages had air-conditioning added,
1850-504: The restaurant cars Kiewa and Moyne were withdrawn as a failed experiment. They had their eating areas removed, being replaced with saloon-style seating, before re-entering service in 1961. The cars were listed in the Working Time Table as second-class vehicles sitting 64 (though two of those seats were unreserved adjacent to the men's lavatory), as the compartment seats had been replaced with four-across, eight per compartment. The result
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1950-509: The same time, AE 36, 1, 3, & 12 were re-coded as BE cars 49 to 52, with their seats removed and replaced for eight per compartment, total 64. 50BE stayed in that form, though the latter two cars were converted back to AE classification in the early 1980s as numbers 51 & 52. In 1970 car 37AE was taken off register, but in 1971 it was converted to the second HW 1 as a crew car for the Weedex train. In this form it ran around Victorian lines, while
2000-403: The standard E design, but with about half the carriage devoted to mail sorting, for use on express trains on runs such as Melbourne to Bendigo. The cars had two seats at one end opposite the male lavatory, one smoking compartment, three standard, and one ladies' compartment, giving a total seating capacity of 41 passengers. The latter compartment had direct access to the ladies' lavatory from within
2050-480: The start of the transition from wooden stock to all steel cars and altered rostering of carriages into small fixed sets. 8BE was scrapped on 11 April 1958 following a side-swipe at Mount Barker in the early morning of 1 January 1958. The carriage was running in a train from Victor Harbor to Adelaide, hauled by engine 525, when it collided with the second division of the Adelaide to Melbourne Overland service. To overcome problems with different seating capacities within
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2100-617: The train sprayed weed-killer onto the tracks. 1AE (still coded 50BES), 2AE, 18AE, 30AE, & 1BG are in the custodianship of the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre, along with the frame of 39AE. 12AE is currently in the care of Steamrail Victoria, and 1HW ex 37AE is stored under their care, unserviceable, in Newport Workshops East Block yard. 18AE was with the Victorian Goldfields Railway, but it
2150-482: The vans were constructed by the South Australian Railways ' Islington Railway Workshops . Later carriages of the E design were constructed at Newport Workshops . The first batch of E-class carriages were built between 1906 and 1911, with 38 AVE 1st class cars, 16 ABVE 1st/2nd composite cars, 39 BVE 2nd class cars, 25 DVE guard's vans, 10 ESBV, 2 EES, and 2 EEB mail vans, 6 Sleeping cars, and 2 Parlor cars;
2200-400: Was located at each end of the carriage, adjacent to the two male lavatories, and two Ladies' compartments were in the middle, each connected directly to a centrally located Ladies lavatory (one of each class). As in the AVE and BVE cars, Ladies accessed their respective toilets from within each compartment, one seat having been omitted in lieu. Additionally, each car had a two-seat bench opposite
2250-520: Was purchased by Seymour Railway Heritage Centre and moved by rail to Seymour for restoration in late 2010. The body of 24AE is used as an administration office at a community farm in Brunswick East, though reportedly in poor condition. Coordinates are 37°45'57.8"S, 144°59'03.7"E. 28AE's body was sold privately and spent some time in Warrnambool before being moved to Codrington. 34AE was converted to
2300-526: Was renumbered 49BE. The car was destroyed in a derailment at Laverton during 1978. Some cars were leased to the South Australian Railways following World War II; as of 1950 they included 4AE, 11AE, 13AE, & 14AE. In 1952 cars 7 & 8AE were sold to the South Australian Railways to become their 550 & 551. The cars were later forwarded to the Commonwealth Railways, with 550 being written off in 1993, and 551 (after other incarnations) preserved by
2350-445: Was sealed as a result, but the vestibule connection remained. In 1930, a collision at Seymour wrecked 15CE. A new van, also numbered 15CE, was built to the style of CE 33 to 37 instead of as the original 15CE. From 1936 the Joint Stock carriages were being repainted in a green, black, and yellow scheme, but this program had to be cut short account the world war. Carriages were spotted in bright red from 1943, including 3CE & 26CE in
2400-428: Was switched to regular traffic instead of fish, and expanded to 14 ft 8 in (4.47 m) long with the outer two compartments reduced to 14 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (4.48 m) in length. Vans 7 to 25 were altered further, with the guards' compartments reduced to 5 ft 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1.69 m) wide; this was done so that the three central compartments could be expanded, with
2450-460: Was the only wooden vehicle to be painted in the VicRail orange 'Teacup' livery. 18CE, owned by Victrack, is currently serviceable thanks to the efforts of Steamrail Victoria. 31CE, also owned by Victrack, is currently under restoration by the Victorian Goldfields Railway . It is thought that both 13CE & 19CE were originally leased to Steamrail, but no record of either van has been seen since. 5CE
2500-426: Was three sets of eight seats in the compartment end, with the remaining 38 seats in a saloon format as 2+2, either side of a 2 ft 1 in (0.64 m) hallway. The saloon area was designated a smoking area, while the compartments were restricted to non-smoking passengers. The compartment walls that had previously supported the car roof were replaced in function by four columns along the saloon section. The 'G' in
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